Romeo and Juliet are in love, but they are not love-sick.

Romeo and Juliet kiss on the night that they first meet.

If Romeo and Juliet were in full control of their mental faculties, surely they would not have chosen to damn themselves to everlasting agony, an agony far greater than that which they were enduring on earth.

Second, consider that suicide is a selfish act when a rational person commits it.

Romeo and Juliet takes place in the 1500s in the city of Verona.

At the tomb, Romeo encounters Paris, who mourns for Juliet. Romeo slays Paris, then enters the tomb and downs his poison. As Friar Laurence comes upon the scene, Juliet awakens only to find the lifeless body of her beloved Romeo laying beside her. Juliet takes the dagger from Romeo's belt and plunges it into her heart. Upon this scene, the Prince arrivesalong with the Montague and Capulet parentsdemanding to know what has happened. Friar Laurence relates to all the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet's secret marriage and their senseless suicides. The Montagues and Capulets, when faced with the terrible price that their feud has exacted, vow to put an end to the enmity between their two houses.

At the Capulet's party, Romeo who is disguised by a masque (mask), falls in love with Juliet on sight. Capulet stops Tybalt from attacking Romeo at his party, telling him there will be other opportunities. Both Romeo and Juliet learn that they are each enemies of the other's family... A Prologue sung by a choir dramatizes the conflict both Romeo and Juliet feel between their love for one another and their loyalty to their respective families.

2013Romeo and Juliet First Scene Act 2 Scene 2.

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, one is able to witness how serious mistakes that were left unrealized, and forgotten, led to the tragic death of the two protagonists.

2013Romeo and Juliet's Balcony, Verona, Italy.

When news of Juliet's "death" reaches Romeo, he purchases a potion of his own—a deadly one—from an apothecary and returns to Verona to die alongside Juliet.

Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet were aided in their love.

Director Oh Tae-Suk writes of his ‘Romeo and Juliet’: ‘The world has gone mad like an unbridled horse running wild. Suspicions, hatred, slander and screaming run rampant among generations…’ If only there had been a whisper of this vicious context in Tae-Suk’s production, but this is a predominantly light-hearted show. It is also surprisingly conflict-free—except for the final scene, which (somewhat incongruously) ratchets up the tension and depicts the two sides plunging straight back into battle. Most of the dance and battle sequences chime in harmony and the performances lack tension; the actors pluck out visual gags at will, but seem reluctant to dig deeper.

Juliet, meanwhile, has noticed Romeo—and fallen deeply in love.

She is there because Romeo had to go away after murdering Tybalt, and she took a sleeping potion so everyone thinks she was dead so she hasn’t got to marry Paris, but actually she isn’t dead, the plan was that Friar Lawrence sent Romeo a letter, and ex...

This ultimately leads to Romeo and Juliet’s suicide.

Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet in the late fifteen hundreds in the riveting city of Verona, Italy, where it has since been revered as one of the most preeminent and recognized play’s in history....

Who is more to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death.

Baz Luhrman’s and William Shakespeare’s versions of Romeo and Juliet are similar in theme, but are different in setting, mood, and character personalities.

At the end of the play, Romeo and Juliet both kill themselves to end their grief. The climax of a play or another fictional literary work, such as a short story or a novel, can be defined as (1) the turning point at which the conflict begins to resolve itself for better or worse, or as (2) the final and most exciting event in a series of events.

In the prologue to Act 1, an actor playing the chorus recites a sonnet in which he describes the bitter hatred dividing the Montagues and Capulets and identifies Romeo and Juliet as lovers who had the misfortune to be born into warring families: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes [the Montagues and the Capulets] / A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life” (lines 5-6).

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the audience witnesses a great amount of familial pride when Tybalt shouts to an opposing family member, “What, drawn, and talk of peace....

Romeo and Juliet are the main characters, or protagonists.

In , the exposition includes the confrontation between the Montague and Capulet servants in Act 1, the secret marriage of Romeo and Juliet at the end of Act 2, and the street fight in Act 3 in which Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt.

: Cousin to Capulet. : Kinsman of the prince and friend of Romeo.

In Romeo and Juliet and in real life, three main reasons why children should not always obey their parents include that times have changed from when they were that age, parents think they know their child the best when they really don’t, and the children need to become self-reliant and their own...